[XML-SIG] example code?

[Siggy Brentrup]

"Michal Wallace (sabren)" <sabren@manifestation.com> writes:

> On 19 Dec 1999, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> 
> > As from what I read from the xmllib docs you have to derive a class
> > along the following lines:
> 
> Thanks, Siggy.
> 
> Yup, that works. 

Thanks for testing :)

> It seems kind of odd to me that your code for handling
> one tag is spread out over four different places.. But I guess that's
> just me. Thanks. :)

That's quite easy with Python, 

class XMLTag:
    """abstract base class for XML tags"""
    def __init__(self, name, parser):
        parser.attributes[name] = self.attributes
        parser.elements[name] = self.handle_start, self.handle_end

class SOME_TAG(XMLTag):

    attributes = {
                   'SOME_ATTR' : 'default value',
                   # ...
                 }

    def __init__(self, parser, *OTHER_ARGS):
        XMLTag.__init__(self, self.__class__.__name__, parser)

    def handle_start(self, attr_dict):
	# do sth usefull
	pass

    def handle_end(self):
	# do sth usefull with all that stuff
	pass


class MY_XML_PARSER(xmllib.XMLParser):

    attributes = {}
    elements   = {}

    def __init__(self, *OTHER_ARGS):
	apply(SOME_TAG, (self,)+OTHER_ARGS)

As before, NO WARRANTY whatsoever.

not-quite-Cato-ly-yoUr's
	Siggy

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